My Kingston SSDNOW 16 died

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I came home to my internet not working and it turns out my Kingston SSDNOW 16GB stopped working. I got this pfsense box a few months back and i read up about it killing SSD's with heavy read/write when using things like squid but then some people said not to worry about it.

grrrrrrr, how is the Kingston warranty? anyone have experience with them?
 
With a Kingston RAM replacement, they were reasonably fast and I had no issues. They were able to cross-ship (provided I give them some credit card info). You shouldn't have any issues.
 
I had a kingston SSD now 16 gig die in my solaris box. RMA was very quick and easy. I mirror them now just in case.
 
I think I am going to turn off squid caching and use log mode only. Do you think that will help?
 
AMD_Gamer said:
I came home to my internet not working and it turns out my Kingston SSDNOW 16GB stopped working. I got this pfsense box a few months back and i read up about it killing SSD's with heavy read/write when using things like squid but then some people said not to worry about it.
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I tend to not like installing packages like squid on pfsense. Too many issues various people have. It's a killer gateway/firewall, but installing anything like squid is asking for trouble, IMO.
 
danswartz said:
I thought he was asking 'how do i keep this from happening to the next SSD? turn off squid caching?'
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LOL!

As usual, I look at things differently. :D

But, an SSD doesn't just quit when the memory is slowly dying from overuse.

This death had nothing to do with normal over usage.
 
Just send it back and get a new one. I've got 2 now and they are both going strong. My previous one showed ZFS read errors before it died.
 
AMD_Gamer said:
I think I am going to turn off squid caching and use log mode only. Do you think that will help?
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No. I do not believe current SSDs die because of excessive writes or at least it will take a very long time to kill one. The most likely problem was some type of controller failure usually caused by a faulty firmware.

Edit: Although with that said you have a 16GB SSD. So you could have worn it out. It's a lot easier to wear out a small ssd then a 64GB+ one.
 
When i took it out and tried to connect it to my other PC with the SATA-USB converter it showed up ONCE but then never again. I know it is the SSD because i put another rworking one in my pfsense box and it worked fine.

Oh well. I opened a support ticket with Kingston so I will see how this goes.
 
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